from the fruit of the room to their final resting place the russians d.w. documentary. this is it deja vu news live from berlin poland votes in a presidential election that's widely seen as a test for democracy. is the 1st presidential poll in the european union since the corona virus outbreak the rightwing incumbent and jay duda is fighting for a 2nd term but he faces a last minute strong challenge from the liberal mayor of warsaw also coming up.

this the italian city that bore the brunt of the pandemic when it 1st hit your prepares to honor the victims of always holding what it calls a requiem concert to remember the city's sit. on exposer welcome to the program polish voters are casting ballots in a tight presidential race the incumbent and j. due to is backed by the right wing populist government he's up against a field of candidates but his main challenger is the liberal mayor of warsaw due to has been campaigning on a conservative social agenda with attacks on the l g b t community as a central thing. in southern poland is one of many small towns that president is visiting during his election campaign. family tradition religion those are the

issues and values he hopes will win over voters in this speech he warns that what he calls l g b t ideology will undermine the traditional family and above all twist children's morals are surprised my parents' generation fought for 40 years to remove communist ideology from the education system so that our children are not forced fed it anymore now it's no longer allowed to brainwash young people or indoctrinate children or soldiers in the army our parents did not fight this fight to prepare the way for another new ideology an ideology even more destructive for humanity just about to. go until recently slogans like these were the preserve of polish nationalists now the nationalists have their own candidate and fear that do to with his radical language maybe siphoning off their voters. well it is good that the president raised this issue during the election campaign but unfortunately the

p.i.a.'s government did nothing over the last 5 years to stop this ideological offensive against poland we are a christian country and people have to respect this that's why right now there is a rather aggressive policy to strengthen these morals. susie under fears that intolerance towards the l g b t community will increase if to die is reelected she is from italy but has lived in warsaw for 20 years and feels at home here although she has been verbally and physically attacked a few times because of her sexual orientation she was horrified by on jay do does statement. shocked me because his statement was very radical. the president had never gone that far before. as a homosexual person in poland i feel threatened. that all the false 50

under is is thinking about leaving poland but 1st she wants to wait for the election results and there is hope to does opponent in the presidential race is warsaw mayor kosky he's campaigning for gay rights he's signed an l g b t charter that outlaws discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation he has spoken out publicly against such polarization. those that you're saying we are fed up with the current government trying to set people against each other. those in power are constantly trying to divide us and everyone who disagrees with this power must live in fear we are fed up with it. these words saw demonstrators also want change so they are supporting the liberal candidate as president of the republic très cox q would not be able to stop the plans of the national conservative government completely but he could veto unconstitutional laws and thus keep the government in check. and to help us understand

a little more about this election joined by the dubious which action nancy from our polish service. this race has been described as a clash of values is that a fair assessment well if the incumbent president mr andree do the wins this election the national conservative law and justice party which is the ruling the country will be able to continue its controversial reforms the reform of the judiciary the reform of the political system the reform of the of the media so what's at stake is actually if poland will continue this journey towards illiberal democracy towards a very conservative country having some issues with the european union or will this journey be the journey that the country has been on for 5 years now will it be stopped by the liberal candidate mr mr trask of ski so i think it's fair to say that well let's talk about just the mayor of warsaw came forward in may

was it as a candidate jack in the box i mean how did that happen well the liberal party hat originally chosen another candidate but she had been very unsuccessful and then the pandemic of coronavirus started which gave the liberals legal opportunity to replace the unsuccessful can do that with mr just so there he is ok i'm going to put you in a spot and wojciech who's you know went oh. well i think we can say who is going to win today because mr du the is leading all the recent recent polls however it's very unlikely that he will get 50 percent of the vote which means that there will be a runoff there will be a 2nd round in 2 weeks and then it is going to be i. very very.

tight race we don't we can't really say who is going to help us understand me understand in our viewers why is the l g b t issue so central to the do their campaign was the was the murder rest of europe has moved on what's going on well i believe that the the law and justice party have understood that they have now a big issue with mr just that he's a threat to mr do the and they know that scaremongering is always a powerful weapon in the campaign in poland so they used this to mobilize its very hard core electorate in poland and we will see if it didn't work out or not ok to diffuse szymanski thank you for that insight thank you. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. the former malawian opposition leader. has been sworn in as president after winning a rerun election with more than 58 percent of the vote the initial poll in may 2019

was discredited and its result overturned because of election fraud. a severe flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least 3 people in southwestern china 2 of the victims died after their vehicles fell into a river in sichuan province authorities have evacuated more than 7000 people from their homes. in the northern italian city of bear comeau is preparing to honor the victims of the coronavirus pandemic this evening with a requiem concert northern italy is lumbered the region took the brunt of the 1st wave of the pandemic in europe with tens of thousands of deaths the disaster helped raise awareness that the illness could spread from asia to around the world now people are asking how it all could have happened in one of europe's richest regions did you know you went to burgle to look for answers. images that are hard to forget military trucks loaded with coffins. doctors and

nurses as frontline fighters and overloaded hospital. which travel to better a city that is still in mourning for stuff the old town usually a tourist hot spot here we meet. a community worker things have calmed down now unlike at the start of the crisis. but you know the jordanian after a few days some of us started breaking down emotionally they were sobbing like babies but it was partly the pressure but also because we were dealing with people who had seen 2 or 3 of their family members die one after the other. during lockdown bi-lo was among the founders of superbad and initiative to help those who couldn't help themselves 200 volunteers joined him they delivered food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for suffering city people

are grieving for the loss of laughter once but they're also beginning to ask questions they want to know why their region. which is one of the richest initially was so hard hit stefan of course grandfather died in a care home he's now collecting the stories of other covered $9000.00 victims with just want to know the proof we want to know if it was addressed before or if there is a high level of power in the authorities not the doctor or sort of nurses that have the possibility to contain this feeling or even to avoid fusco and others say the worst affected parts of the region should have been closed down at an early stage they criticize the region's far right president in milan for putting profits. for people to see that before we find out who is responsible we have to understand whether or not we made mistakes from the regions point

a few i think we try to give all possible answers and take all possible preventions at a time when we were confronting an extraordinary situation at a time when nobody knew much about the virus. back in bed again we'll get to a bio assess the citizens will have to take things into their own hands his initiative super better will now start organizing concerts to support local artists . confident that over time his city will manage to recover but that optimism a stamp and by the fear of a 2nd wave of infections. facebook has been under increasing pressure to crack down on inflammatory and accurate posts including those by u.s. president donald trump major companies including coca-cola you know lever and starbucks have announced they will stop placing ads on facebook and other social media platforms in response to growing criticism facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg now says the platform will start flagging newsworthy posts that violate its policies and will block advertising content deemed to be hateful zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against divisive post by trump and other public figures. and joining us now to shed some light on this is d w reporter joel dull roy why are companies pulling us from facebook houses happening they're doing so in response to public pressure from a group called stop hate for profit which basically wants facebook to stop making money by selling ads alongside divisive content and this all started in response to some social media posed by us president donald trump back at the end of may in the middle of those major anti racism protests back then trump put out a post saying among other things when the losing shot starts the shooting starts we can see that there in his post now he put this post on facebook and twitter twitter

decided to hide behind a warning saying that it contained content that could glorify violence facebook however took a very different decision it was a decision made personally by mark zuckerberg to leave that content on edited he said it didn't violate any of their policies and therefore shouldn't be changed now that angered facebook employees they staged an internal protest it's now advertisers concerned major brands coca-cola you know lever and starbucks in recent hours have also joined in and that's also spooked investors who have started selling off facebook shares in wife to several 1000000000 off its share price value so how is facebook been reacting and facebook's reacting. very very slowly at 1st look at burke started out by defending his decisions he has his fundamental belief that facebook should not be the arbiter of truth that it should not decide what information users see the rather user should make up their own minds and this also goes for advertising by the way they accept political ads even if they contain

misinformation you can trust that with the much smaller rival twitter now what twitter does it is moderators place flags on information that it to the either is it could incite violence or may interfere with the electoral process and it also doesn't accept any ads at all from politicians well now after a big delay mark zuckerberg has announced these new policies and they bring facebook closer in line to what twitter already does so what they're going to do is use what they call the newsworthy exception if there's a post that they think should be visible they're going to leave it up but they going to put a flag on it and direct users to other information we can have a listen now to some of what zuckerberg had to say about ok. there's no reviews were exempt then your content that incites violence or. even a politician we're going to fishel says. we determine the content may need violence or deprive people of the right route to take the content down to know who

says. ok so this is like a whole new ballgame for facebook and controlling speech and censoring hate speech thanks so much strolled over for that insight. and we are you are watching story d.w. news of course don't forget you can get all the latest news on our web site t.v. dot com on next parser thanks for watching. my 1st boss was a sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by this notion to remember something as simple as learning how to ride a bicycle it isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me mr going to stay there. finally they gave up

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